To live, to love, and to leave a legacy.
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Why even Libertarians should want a King
Controversial – and I have also not yet found the theoretical basis, but empirically, I believe in the cycle of energy (waves, not balance), which causes me to look at how we manage a society. Polybius (a Greek historian) talks about anacyclosis. This leads me to believe in the need of a system that allows…
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Iran – and now, the learning for what’s next.
I wrote this as, the hopefully last ever, American bombs have fallen on the country. A scary time for my wife’s family. I have visited the country on many an occasion and experienced first-hand the immense cultural depth, phenomenal food, and the strengths of its resource-rich location. Most countries, like most people, have their struggles.…
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My thoughts on “the news”
Ubiquitous consumption of news doesn’t inform; it cultivates learned helplessness and oversimplifies complex realities, dangerously exacerbating societal polarization. Its sensationalized, fragmented content demonstrably diminishes our sustained attention and critical cognitive functions. Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson: those who don’t read the news are better informed. Consider news to be like sugar for the brain: highly palatable yet…
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Nederlandse Grondwet – Artikel 3
In reactie op Mr. Dr. Leo Klinkers schreef ik het volgende. Ik ben het op dit moment (in mijn denken) echter NIET eens met zijn voorstel voor de artikel 3 aanpassing; m.i. zou dat d.m.v. het op natuurlijke wijze naar boven borrelen van de mensen die de door de burgers gewenste impact maken. Dat process…
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Google Drive SQLite Reference
As a reference, here are the databases Google uses (as per 20230206), as I could not find this anywhere on the internets. Reason I was diving deeper into this: I have a 4+ million files GDrive (0.6TB) and a resync (data already local) on a new machine took several months to complete while running the…
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Future Thinking 2021 Spain
As structure providing institutions like the church, state, work, family and even school lose their power to direct life and society, individuals need to find their own individual purposes in life and imagine, create & direct their own story. This requires different skills! In most richer countries, material needs are commoditized. This means meaning now…
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Google Tasks API – Overdue Tasks
Here is a handy little script to move tasks that are overdue to today. https://Pallieter.org/Projects/Google/Tasks/
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Post in Dutch: companies against covid are hypocritic?
Ik heb moeite met de zin: “Om de veiligheid van alle deelnemers te garanderen, kunnen wij helaas alleen deelnemers zonder COVID-19 gerelateerde gezondheidsklachten toelaten tot de programma’s op locatie.” Ik ervaar dit als zeer onrealistisch, discriminerend en niet logisch. Mensen met andere gezondheidsklachten zijn wel welkom? Mensen met AIDS? TB? Kinkhoest? Griep? Vroegen jullie voor…
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World Future Society Acceptance Letter
Written on 05-05-2000 by Sir PK. The World Future Society is an association for the study of alternative futures and publisher of The Futurist – a journal of forecasts, trends and ideas about the future. IntroductionIn this acceptance letter for Coordinator for the World Future Society in The Netherlands I would like to introduce myself…
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Remote controlling a computer via robotics.
How to control a device with a screen and one or more input devices (like a keyboard and mouse) remotely? There are solutions that connect the device directly (Remote Desktop software like VNC), but it could also be done physically. This might be of interest to spy agencies like the CIA or FBI – but…
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